We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered god out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised... when all hell breaks loose.

This fucking country has a God problem...what kind of country are we living in where politicians and public figures feel the need to push religion to the center stage at the expense of actual social problems?

Don't let his act fool you. The Huckster is as crazy as anyone in the country.

Our big national shame is that it's easier for a psychopath to but a military grade deadly weapon than it is for a law abiding minor to buy condoms or a six-pack of beer and every freakin' Reichwhiner goes (more) nuts when anyone suggests looking into ways to prevent said psychopaths from buying deadly weapons.

And since we've ordered god out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised ...

God hasn't been ordered out of any of these things. It's the government that has been ordered out of promoting your particular version of God, (or mine, or the Pope's or Fred Phelp's or Mullah Omar's or the Cherokee's or the Dalai Lama's ...)

You fuckin' retard, murders were happening when GAWHD was still in schools. When do you think the U.S. genocide against Native Americans happened? In the 60s? No, we don't have a "sin" problem, since sin does not exist, but we do have an idiot problem, as Mr. Huckabee shows.

@Breakerslion - Let's not vilify the hyenas either. They laugh when they're scared and the butchest of the ladies are in charge. I don't want to compliment the fundies by comparing them to awesome genderfucking animals.

Let's look at some countries which have "ordered God out". According to Gallup, 36% of Americans say that religion is not an important part of their lives. Significantly less religious developed nations would obviously have a higher such percentage; in Sweden it's 88%, in Britain 76%, in Japan 71%.

Now compare the homicide rates in these countries.* The number of homicides committed in the year 1999 per 100,000 people in these countries are:

Sweden: 0.94
Britain: 0.49
Japan: 0.30
United States: 4.55

Hey, wow, these countries have less God AND less violence! Whoda thunk it?

(I don't think the inverse of Huckabee's claim - that belief in God actually increases crime rates - is true either. But the evidence is more in favor of this than of his bullshit.)